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NPVR Service Keeps Stopping

Several times in the past few days, I have found the NPVR Service in a 'Stopped' state and have had to Start it again. This has caused a number of programme recordings to be missed. This morning it has happened again. Is there anything I can do to prevent this behaviour? Has anything changed recently to cause this - I have been a user of NextPVR for a couple of years (and have donated), but have not encountered this problem before about two weeks ago.

Hi, Martin. I'm not sure what you would consider 'reasonable', but I can assure you that our NextPVR recordings are solely for the personal entertainment of my wife and I, here in this house! I never post recordings made through NextPVR, or from anywhere else for that matter, online. We rarely watch live TV, except for occasional sporting events - everything else is pre-recorded, either through NextPVR, or from services like Amazon Prime and Netflix. On the other hand, I can also say that I delete a lot of the recordings made unwatched, because the option to only record 'new' programs doesn't seem to work with my provider. I have to record all episodes of a given show such as 'Pawn Stars', including numerous repeats, in order to be sure of capturing new ones when they come along. It is my daily chore to delete all the repeats. The only reason why the remote server would return the "(403) Forbidden." code that I can think of is if more than four streams are set to be recorded at the same time. It's not easy to see in advance when that situation might occur, and nothing shows up on the Conflicts page in the Event Viewer. As far as errors showing, for each of the recordings scheduled to be made during the period when the service was stopped, all that I have is "Failed" beneath the show title on the left, and "Recording service not started" in red on the right.

It is my daily chore to delete all the repeats. The only reason why the remote server would return the "(403) Forbidden." code that I can think of is if more than four streams are set to be recorded at the same time. It's not easy to see in advance when that situation might occur, and nothing shows up on the Conflicts page in the Event Viewer.

FYI - NextPVR v5 lets you set the maximum number of connections for an IPTV m3u, to help you manage this.